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Conditional formatting

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Wed 12 Oct 2011, 10:09 Delegate Joanne said...

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Conditional formatting

Is it possible to conditionally format two things at once e.g. All of the people that attended a training course and the date attended linked directly to that course

Fri 14 Oct 2011, 11:32 Trainer Anthony said...

RE: Conditional formatting

Hi Joanne, thanks for your query. That certainly is possible, although you'll need to use a formula to do it. Here's a walkthrough of the basics:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/cformatting.htm

Hope this helps,

Anthony

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Converting an American date format to European using Formula

Excel depending on your local setting will only pick up date values of the dd mmm yyyy oders as date type. If you import data from various sources including America their date order is different with data value in mmm dd yyyy, excel can only treat it as text indicated by left aligning it. To overcome this you have to do the the following.

1. Extract the date components mmm dd yyyy, by using the the Text functions LEFT, MID or RIGHT

2. Reorder dd mmm component and concatenate using "&" in the right order this will create a text string with the date in the right order it then needss to be converted to a value so excel can recognise it.

3. To convert to value encase in TEXT function.

4. Format to desired date format.

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Converting an American date format to European using Formula